Openbravo Mobile Web / Multi-Touch Preview (Web POS example)

See for yourself the kind of state-of-the art mobile user experiences coming out of Openbravo's global open source labs. Our user-centric experiences are not only productive and leverage the latest multi-touch mobile hardware options, they are also a joy to execute.

Your Barcelona-based hosts are Openbravo User Experience Guru Rob Goris and Retail specialist Elena Martinez, who will use a prototype to demonstrate some of the use cases we are developing. The focus of this particular prototype is our Web POS (Point of Sale) client, which is one very exciting new addition to the Openbravo for Retail solution.

This video will give you a feel for the kind of integrated, mobile web experiences you can expect from Openbravo. Specifically note these points about our mobile web vision:

- this user experience is representative of the forthcoming Web POS functionality, and
- it clearly demonstrates the kind of mobile web UIs that will be generated using Openbravo's device-neutral, model-driven technology, and
- it shows the power of a centralized, real time database that serves both retail back office and store-level needs--easily accessed by great web UIs from a choice of traditional PCs / POS terminals or mobile devices

Note that this is a prototype / concept video, and hence does not precisely represent the initial Web POS product version.

As a development philosophy, we "start with the end in mind" from the (Market + UX) vision perspective, and then use our agile development methodology to deliver incrementally, incorporating global feedback at every stage.

So please enjoy, and respond to this video with your feedback!

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[Jeffrey Neo]

I like your design. simple & clear.

[MowizosCrib]

You should have drank the wine before the demo and brought a little more life to it.

[Rob Goris]

This said, for small one-shop offline retailers, Java POS Client might be the best choice. Good luck with the deployment, whatever architecture you choose!

[Rob Goris]

Web POS needs a connection to the back-end to pull products/prices in the browser´s local storage. This is done once, e.g. at the beginning of the day/week. After that, operations can continue offline and tickets are stored locally. Cash Management & Close processes need a connection and product/price changes obviously also need it to be pushed to the Web POS. Note that Web POS does not need internet to talk to the back-end when a local network is used and the server sits on-site.

[nethead4223]

Thanks for the info but i just did realize that the openvravo web is a hosted application which requires 99% stable internet access which we dont have in indonesia. We have regular blackouts as well as instable internet con here. In addition some of the restaurants and hotels where we need to supply a new POS system are on tiny island with even worse infrastructure. I really would like to use and resell your product but its unusable here. We stay with openbravo pos and will enhance it.

[Rob Goris]

Bektemir, see my answer above. The product shown in the video is a different product than the Java POS client (the free product that you mention). Openbravo for Retail is designed for a different deployment and market than the Java POS Client. You can still choose to work with the latter if you wish.